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When we were ready we would take a walk, perhaps down to La Boqueria, the food market that we both loved, — David Nicholls

... surprised all over again at how very comforting very bad food can be. — David Nicholls

We can just hang out and walk and read and talk and stuff. — David Nicholls

Dont run before you can walk — David Nicholls

Once you decide not to worry about that stuff anymore, dating and relationships and love and all that, it's like you're free to get on with real life. — David Nicholls

At some point, I'd like to have an origina l idea. And I'd like to be fancied, or maybe loved even, but I'll wait and see. — David Nicholls

No-one ever built a statue of a critic. — David Nicholls

Their lips touched now, mouths pursed tight, their eyes open, both of them stock still. The moment held, a kind of such glorious confusion. — David Nicholls

He looks at the glass, almost ritualistically, then drains it, and thinks: not drinking would be so much easier if it wasn't so delicious. — David Nicholls

Find the thing you love, and do it with all your heart, to the absolute best of your ability, no matter what people say. — David Nicholls

These days the nights and mornings have a tendency to bleed into one another. — David Nicholls

... she was discovering once again that reading and writing were not the same - you couldn't just soak it up then squeeze it out again. — David Nicholls

She had reached a turning point. She no longer believed that a situation could be made better by writing a poem about it. — David Nicholls

To have had fame, even very minor fame, and to have lost it, got older and maybe put on a little weight is a kind of living death. — David Nicholls

had put them up to it, perhaps the chefs — David Nicholls

People change, no use getting sentimental about it. Move on, find someone else. — David Nicholls

For some time now she has had the conviction that life is about to change if only because it must ... — David Nicholls

Living in her University town felt like stayng on at a party that everyone else had left. — David Nicholls

You can't expect people to build their lives around you — David Nicholls

But they had also settled into the maddening familiarity of friendship; maddening for her at least. — David Nicholls

And then it was over — David Nicholls

Call me or I'll call you, but one of us will call, yes? What I mean is it's not a competition. You don't lose I you phone first. — David Nicholls

You can live your whole life not realizing that what you're looking for is right in front of you. — David Nicholls

Who do you think you are, Jane Eyre? Grow up. Be sensible. Don't get carried away. — David Nicholls

Then
dies, and everything that she thought or felt vanishes and is gone forever. — David Nicholls

Letters, like compilation tapes, were really vehicles for unexpressed emotions and she was clearly putting far too much time and energy into them. — David Nicholls

In fact he was rather boring on the subject, but I kept quiet and took comfort in that old saying about fallen apples and their distance from trees. — David Nicholls

You start out wanting to change the world through language, and end up thinking it's enough to tell a few good jokes. — David Nicholls

Call me sentimental, but there's no-one in the world that I'd like to see get dysentery more than you — David Nicholls

I suppose the important thing is to make some sort of difference — David Nicholls

Why can't you just love me? Why can't you just be in love with me? — David Nicholls

I'm inclined to think that, after a certain age, our tastes, instincts and inclinations harden like concrete. — David Nicholls

Okay, well I think the programme is like being screamed at for an hour by a drunk with a strobe-light, but like I said
— David Nicholls

Maybe that's just what happens; you start out wanting to change the world through language, and end up thinking it's enough to tell a few jokes. — David Nicholls

Indignantly, as if I'd just invited everyone back to mine for heroin and — David Nicholls

You know, if I ruled the world, which I fully intend to do one day by the way, first thing I'd do ... — David Nicholls

Be good. Do something good. — David Nicholls

Salmon. Salmon, salmon, salmon, salmon. I eat so much salmon at these weddings, twice a year I get this urge to swim upstream. — David Nicholls

At university, I used to write silly little sketches and monologues, but never fiction. — David Nicholls

And it was at moments like this that she had to remind herself that she was in love with him, or had once been in love with him, a long time ago. — David Nicholls

I think reality is overrated. — David Nicholls

Sometimes, when it is going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really just a fetish for stationary. — David Nicholls

It's the face itself that I love, not that face at twenty-eight or thirty-four or forty-three. It's that face. — David Nicholls

... mortified at the speed with which intimacy evaporates ... — David Nicholls

realist works I look for detail; 'Look at the eyelashes! — David Nicholls

I don't think there's anything we can do, is there? We either stop or we carry on. — David Nicholls

He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random, it would be a cool photograph. — David Nicholls

Not change the world exactly, just the bit around you. — David Nicholls

I'm trying to be inspiring! I'm trying to lift your grubby soul for the great adventure that lies ahead of you! — David Nicholls

[He] didn't like to think of himself as vain, but there were definitely times when he wished there was someone on hand to take his photograph. — David Nicholls

I really was a terrible actor. I did it for years in my twenties because it was like being at university again. — David Nicholls

If she does have a failing, and it's obviously only a tiny one, it's that she doesn't seem particularly curious about other people, or me, anyway. — David Nicholls

It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present. Charles Dickens, David Copperfield — David Nicholls

While there was breath in my body, she would never lack sufficient AA batteries. — David Nicholls

Fear and anxiety are great motivators for me. — David Nicholls

It's rapidly becoming clear that the so-called best years of my life are never going to happen — David Nicholls

Things should look right, Fun; there should be a lot of fun and no more sadness than absolutely necessary — David Nicholls

Suki is the nation's ideal girlfriend, a woman for whom bubbliness is a way of life, verging on a disorder. — David Nicholls

But how can you not like music? That's the same as not liking food! Or sex! — David Nicholls

Though not my field, I was familiar with the notion of alternative realities, but was not used to occupying the one I liked the best. — David Nicholls

Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately ,experience new things, love and be loved. — David Nicholls

As a matter of fact, I think there are more things important in life than relationships. — David Nicholls

Conversation, the gradual unveiling of oneself, one's quirks and characteristics, opinions and beliefs; what a fraught and awkward business that is. — David Nicholls

I love that sound,' he mumbled into her hair. 'Blackbirds at dawn.'
'I hate it. Makes me think I've done something I'll regret. — David Nicholls

As a novelist, I'm incredibly lucky to make a living, but that doesn't mean that I don't lie awake at four o'clock in the morning, worrying. — David Nicholls

The city had defeated her, just like they said it would. Like some overcrowded party, no one had noticed her arrival, and would notice if she left. — David Nicholls

Ah, solving that question Brings the priest and the doctor In their — David Nicholls

And by the time the train pulls into the station, I find myself actually relieved that Emily's only a figment of my imagination. — David Nicholls

my digs look as if they've been dug — David Nicholls

Okay then, smile and... — David Nicholls

For Stephen, London was less a city that never slept, more a city that got a good nine hours. — David Nicholls

And not for the first time she felt a reassuring shiver of dislike for him. — David Nicholls

As new dawns go, this one is depressingly like the old dawn. — David Nicholls

Everyone likes me. It's my curse. — David Nicholls

Best to leave quietly, and no reunions. Move on, and look to the future. Plenty more faces out there. — David Nicholls

Imagine staying awake all night not because you're worried about the future but because it's FUN — David Nicholls

She could be breathing fire and I wouldn't mind.
'You could be breathing fire and I wouldn't mind,' I say. — David Nicholls

Were helping build capability and capacity in the new Iraqi Navy — David Nicholls

The unrequited love of ones' only living offspring has its own particular slow acid burn — David Nicholls

I've only ever been recognised in the street once. In Sweden, strangely. — David Nicholls

Josh likes to say he put the funk in 'functional'. Personally I think he just put the ass in 'embarrassing', but, hey, what do I know? — David Nicholls

Recklessness, spontaneity didn't really suit her, she couldn't carry if off, the results were never what she hoped for. — David Nicholls

He's a better person when she's around, and isn't that what friends are for, to raise you up and keep you at your best? — David Nicholls

Better by far to be good and courageous and bold and to make difference. Not change the world exactly, but the bit around you — David Nicholls

Everything was fine, and she had the rare, new sensation of being exactly where she wanted to be. — David Nicholls

I'm not expressing myself very well - '
'Dexter, I understand you perfectly, that's the problem - — David Nicholls

A joke was not a single-use item but something you brought out again and again until it fell apart in your hand like a cheap umbrella. — David Nicholls

You must do what you enjoy. — David Nicholls

They have started to arrive. An endless cascade of luxuriously quilted envelopes, thumping onto the doormat. The wedding invitations. — David Nicholls

Their friendship was like a wilted bunch of flowers that she insisted on topping up with water. Why not let it die instead? — David Nicholls

I would never complain about 'One Day' taking off, but it made me painfully self-conscious for a long time. — David Nicholls

I'm not the consolation prize, Dex. I'm not something you resort to. I happen to think I'm worth more than that. — David Nicholls

Brian: I love books
Prof. Morrison: The contents of books, or just owning a whole load of books? — David Nicholls

Oh you know me. I have no emotions. I'm a robot. Or a nun. A robot nun. — David Nicholls

And is that what love looks like
all wet mouths and your skirt rucked up?"
"Sometimes it is. — David Nicholls

This isn't a letter, it's a gift. — David Nicholls

Be nice wont you?" "I am nice, I'm always nice." "But not too nice. I mean don't make a religion out of it, niceness. — David Nicholls

Then they kiss again, and she goes to work, and he goes to work, and so the days go by, faster than ever. — David Nicholls

Well, in the first flush of love, if someone tells you to read something then you damn well read it [ ... ] — David Nicholls

But i hate this date, and will always hate this day every year fromnow on whenever it comes around — David Nicholls